Syria is key to halting ISIS

With massive airstrikes now being launched by the US and Arab nations against ISIS targets in Syria, lecturer Malcolm Jorgensen discusses the next steps in the region including thawing attitudes to Iran.

Malcolm Jorgensen was awarded his PhD in United States Foreign Policy and International Law in 2015, as the US Studies Centre's first resident doctoral candidate. Jorgensen is a former lecturer, tutor and research associate of the Centre. He is now a research fellow of the Kolleg-Forschergruppe Berlin Potsdam Research Group at Humboldt University, Berlin